While that worked for you and I'm glad, sleep-training doesn't necessarily work for everyone. It's not all or nothing - you can put your baby to bed at the same time every night even if you go and get them if they wake up later. I'm sure it would have the same effect.

I would donate to that kickstarter.

Do you mean cagey as in wiley or cagey as in cage-like, as in a penis trap?

Patriarchy hurts everyone.

I don't think it's bad, I think you should do what makes you feel comfortable and ready to take on the world.

I'm reading them, but being part of 4chan doesn't give you a free pass from being insensitive.

You know, I don't think I am. I think that victims of exploitation are degraded and mocked all the time, in a "how could they be so stupid" kind of way, and then to mock them for the ways they choose to better themselves just seems cruel, and it seems emblematic of the feeling that they are not worth our empathy.

You dealt with it by mocking a victim for her choice of how to better her life. That makes you an asshole.

Really? This was the time you couldn't help yourself?

They sell them at Perkins, if you have one of those near you!

That sounds lovely!

I starred this not because I'm glad that this happened to you, but because I feel you. I hate when people cancel plans on me. And it's often the start of serious gaslighting - "it's not a big deal, I couldn't make it, what do you want me to do? It's just a party."

Ah this sucks. I'm sorry you're dealing with that. But I'm so happy for you that you think this is, overall, a positive life choice!

The problem is when you give those people in charge, with relatively little training in sensitivity or decency, apparently, ultimate power over people in a very scary, real way. Everyone knows that you can't stand up to a TSA agent. You have no voice in that situation. There's no way to say "I'd like to speak with…

Most cakes like that aren't actually eaten. They're put on display and then when they're "served" it's actually another cake that was made that day or the day before cut up and sent out.

I believe Daine was the wild mage.

Wildmages are a Tamora Pierce thing yes?

I did handle it poorly, and attempted to own up to that, and I'm sorry.

Alright, hello. I think there's a good chance you won't read this, and that's fair. I wish Kinja had a direct message feature. Anyway.

I don't know why you think I'm telling you to shut up. I'm taking issue with how you're speaking, but that's not the same as telling you to shut up. Misinterpreting a quote in an article isn't the same as deliberately refusing to listen to anything said directly to you. Speaking to your own experience isn't the same…